Seadet-i Ebediyye - Endless Bliss Third Fascicle

seldom take place today. It is an act of sunnat to visit a bedridden
person who has someone to tend him. It is written in the
annotation to Mishkât that it is wâjib to visit him to see how he is
if he has no one with him. We should join the namâz of janâza [1]
performed for a dead Muslim and walk at least a few steps behind
the janâza being carried to the cemetery.” Here we end our
translation from the two hundred and sixty-fifth letter. Ibni
’Âbidîn states in the section headlined ‘Hazar wa Ibâha’: “If the
things that are harâm exist in the room, then you go there. If they
are at the meal table, then you don’t go there. If you are there
because you did not know (that they existed there), then you sit
there with displeasure in your heart, or leave the place under some
pretext. For, an act of sunnat should be forfeited lest you should
commit an act that is harâm. Backbiting or listening to people who
backbite others is a sinful act worse than musical instruments and
harâm games. If you are an authority or a man of position, then
you should prevent the harâm situation at the table or leave the
place.”
It is stated at the end of the chapter dealing with zakât in the
book entitled Mâ-lâ-budda (and written by Muhammad Senâullah
Pânî Pûtî ‘rahmatullâhi ta’âlâ ’alaih’, 1143 [1730 A.D.], Pânî-Put,
India – 1225 [1810], Pânî-Put): “It is an act of muakkad sunnat to
entertain your guest for three days. It becomes mustahab on days
exceeding that limit.”
It is stated in Hadîqa, towards the end of its chapter dealing
with retributions incurred by way of speech: “When you are to
enter someone’s house, room, or garden, it is wâjib to ask for
permission. You should not enter without asking for permission by
knocking on the door, ringing the doorbell, or by calling, e.g.
greeting. Permission should be asked for by parents to enter their
children’s rooms and by children to enter their parents’ rooms.
Permission should be asked for three times. If permission is not
given after the first asking, it must be asked for a second time after
waiting for about a minute. If it still is not given, the request must
be made a third time. In case you are not given permission this
time, either, [if you have waited for as long as you would have
performed a namâz of four rak’ats,] you do not enter, and leave. If
the door is opened slightly, you say who you are before asking for
the person you are looking for. [Likewise, when you telephone
[1] Please see the fifteenth chapter of the fifth fascicle of Endless Bliss for
‘namâz of janâza’.
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